anyone have a good suggestion of a website or local store to buy hdmi cables?

also if my tv is 60hz would a 120hz cable do anything extra for me?

3/30/2009 4:58:59 PM

monoprice is the only place you should even look

3/30/2009 4:59:46 PM

Best Buy
duh

3/30/2009 5:05:31 PM

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"monoprice is the only place you should even look"

3/30/2009 5:07:37 PM

u know monoprice is also my favorite

but i ordered some 3.5mm audio cables and the first one i pulled out was crap (havent checked the others tho). it made a loud buzzing sound when i plugged it into anything...all other cables i've ordered from there have been fine though (including hdmi)

3/30/2009 5:17:41 PM

if i need one like right this second, sam's

3/30/2009 5:24:31 PM

^ Tiger Direct on capital has them cheap. I think Intrex does too.

3/30/2009 5:48:44 PM

i saw an hdmi cable at harbor freight!!!!!!111111


http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=98021

[Edited on March 30, 2009 at 6:31 PM. Reason : . link added]

3/30/2009 6:30:37 PM

http://www.meritline.com/3-pcs-of-6-feet-hdmi-male-to-male-digital-av-cable-28-awg---p-26865.aspx

$5 for 1, $7 for 2, $9 for 3. Free shipping.

3/30/2009 6:38:30 PM

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"Tiger Direct on capital has them cheap. I think Intrex does too."

not in raleigh.

i dunno about quality & price at those places, but sam's has super nice ones for $20. braided, no oxygen, gold and whatnot

3/31/2009 8:39:43 AM

^ Haha.

3/31/2009 10:07:10 AM

i gots ta have dat braided gold

3/31/2009 10:08:18 AM

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"no oxygen"

is it anything like what happened in total recall?

dealextreme.com has them also.

3/31/2009 11:32:58 AM

yeah i have no clue how no oxygen helps

3/31/2009 11:49:35 AM

pretty much means it's approved for use in space

3/31/2009 11:52:52 AM

thats farrrrrrrrr out man...

3/31/2009 11:55:14 AM

awesome. next time i take my tv out to the ISS i'll make sure to take that cable.

3/31/2009 12:10:28 PM

meritline, monoprice or bluejeanscable.com (I love bluejeans, but they aren't rock bottom cheap like the other two)

3/31/2009 1:45:39 PM

Cablestogo is another good vendor. I don't know if they have a website (Google can answer that) but they sell on Amazon.

3/31/2009 1:49:51 PM

you want oxygen free so that the copper crystals or whatever are like smooth and crap, not like jigawatts of copper crystals that mess up your hard drive rates and cause BSOD when the ram flashes.

3/31/2009 4:21:33 PM

monoprice is so low, its not even a question. i got a dvi to hdmi converter and a 30' hdmi cable for less than 20 bucks a little while back. try pricing that one at bestbuy.

3/31/2009 6:39:33 PM

The quality of cables from monoprice is extremely suspect though. I've had problems with several cables I've purchased there over the years. But for simple crap (short run hdmi/dvi/usb) it's by far the best deal.

For any analog cable, and long run digital cables, I wouldn't recommend them.

3/31/2009 6:43:15 PM

^ I would agree with that, although I think the problem lies mostly in the connector not in the cable itself...

Just spend ~10-20 bucks on a decent cable and be done with it. Remember, an HDMI cable is the same spec as your cat-5 ethernet cable.

3/31/2009 6:46:48 PM

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"The quality of cables from monoprice is extremely suspect though. I've had problems with several cables I've purchased there over the years."

i've only had a problem with one cable (fiber w/ metal toslink ends) out of all the cables i've bought from there, and i've bought quite a few... and even then, all i had to do was send the broken one back to them and they sent me a new one, no questions asked.

3/31/2009 7:39:06 PM

I don't mean "it doesnt work", I mean the quality of the signal was visibly degraded. Like I said, for short run digital, it probably doesnt matter.

But their component and audio cables suck balls compared to bluejeans

3/31/2009 7:43:25 PM

I saw an article/video from a reputable source once that said 3 feet cables, cheap or high dollar, will display about the same, and 6-12 feet cords, a mid-grade priced cable displayed the same as a high-dollar cable. I'll see if I can find this video. All this probably assumes that the cables had at least an acceptable level of craftsmanship.

[Edited on March 31, 2009 at 7:51 PM. Reason : /]

3/31/2009 7:50:06 PM

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"I mean the quality of the signal was visibly degraded"

digital is pretty much all or nothing.

3/31/2009 8:21:10 PM

ive watched movies on a 1080p 120" projector over a 30 foot monoprice HDMI cable.

I am VERY critical when it comes to video and I did not seen any bit error problems. Unrelated but I'm so sensitive to compression artifacts I prefer the standard def analog tuner with the screen slightly out of focus. Enough converters and decoders in the line help blur out the hard edges >.<

I'm still amazed how far we stepped back in picture quality to go forward with the light weight small space TV technology of today.





[Edited on March 31, 2009 at 8:32 PM. Reason : .]

3/31/2009 8:30:04 PM

oh man... seriously?

next thing I know you're going to claim that an upconverted DVD looks the same as a blu-ray.

3/31/2009 9:49:55 PM

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10120088-1.html

I think it was Cnet that also did the video on this as well.

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"Holiday season reminder: Buy cheap HDMI cables by Matthew Moskovciak * Font size * Print * E-mail * Share * 56 comments * Yahoo! Buzz In the bustle of holiday shopping, it's easy to be persuaded by the salesperson at your local retailer that you need to buy a $50 HDMI cable to make your new gear work. They might say the expensive cable "supports faster speeds," "has better video quality," or that "cheap cables don't support 1080p"--pretty much anything to get you to throw that high-margin HDMI cable in your shopping cart. But the truth is that expensive HDMI cables aren't worth it and the cheap cables available online are just as good. In fact, our guide to HDMI cables says this in bold, at the top of the page: CNET strongly recommends cheap HDMI cables widely available from online retailers instead of the expensive counterparts sold in your local electronics store. The full guide explains all the reasons in detail, but the main takeaway is that you should never pay more than $10 for a standard 6-foot HDMI cable. Cheap HDMI cables can be found all over the Web--we've had good experiences with both Monoprice and Amazon. Then you can take the money you saved and get some gear that's actually worth it--check out CNET's Holiday Gift Guide for suggestions."

[Edited on April 1, 2009 at 8:34 AM. Reason : /]

4/1/2009 8:33:22 AM